-----Original Message----- From: owner-ifip_ga@ifip.or.at [mailto:owner-ifip_ga@ifip.or.at]On Behalf Of Plamen Nedkov Sent: quarta-feira, 13 de Fevereiro de 2002 11:04 To: all Subject: Knock, knock - it's 'Good News' Time
Dear All,
Breaking News:
1. Tomorrow, 14 February, 2002 in Grenoble, France will be the Launching Meeting of Villa Media [ for details please check our earlier message - 'The "Villa" will open' http://www.ifip.or.at/mail/msg00074.html ]. Jack Lang, the French Minister of Education, and Romano Prodi, the President of the European commission or his representative, and many other French and European key figures will mark the occasion. IFIP will also be represented and during the afternoon Prof. Raymond MOREL, Swiss IFIP GA representative and TC 3 Vice-Chair, will be one of the distinguished panelists of a Roundtable which will address the concept of learning seen either as an objective transmission of content or as a process that will resort for a large part to sensitiveness. The main issue to be addressed is in what way do the objects and the tools of the digital mediation serve one or the other of these approaches, or in what way do they make this distinction obsolete?
IT'S NOT A COINCIDENCE that IFIP's TC 3 will conduct its annual meeting in Grenoble at the same time and many of our TC members will be at the opening of La Villa Media.
2. The IFIP Executive Director received a facsimile from the Office of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Lithuania, dated 12 February 2002, confirming that "the Prime Minister of the Republic of Lithuania, Mr. Algirdas Brazauskas has expressed great support for the WITFOR forum which will take place in Vilnius, Lithuania in 2003". The letter further says that the Prime Minister assures the organizers of this IFIP event that "the Government of Lithuania will issue necessary funding for organizational needs of the Forum."
3. The President of the Slovenian Member society of IFIP, host of IFIP Council and Related Meetings in Bled, 2-7 March 2002, confirmed that the Slovenian Minister of the Information Society will welcome and meet with the Council participants. other dignitaries will also join and we expect interesting presentations on the state of IT research, applications and industry in the country.
Stay tuned,
The Delivery Co.
P.S. Some of you complained that the Delivery Co. lets too many messages go without a joke. To compensate you we intend to prepare "Your Friday's Special" in the near future and if anyone itches to contribute you can send your joke to the Delivery Co... but no sex jokes, PLEASE - our secretary is British!
----------------------------- Plamen Nedkov Executive Director, IFIP Hofstrasse 3, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria Tel: +43 2236 73616 Fax: +43 2236 736169 www: http://www.ifip.or.at/